Trace-fastener



D. E. SMITH. TRACE FASTENER.

(N0 Model.)

Patented Sept. 20, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL E. SMITH, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

TRACE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,762, dated September 20,1892. Application filed May 16, 1892- Serial No. 433,190. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mobile, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Trace-Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in trace-fasteners; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the parts thereof, as will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of this invention is to provide means for taking the strain directly from the end of the trace by carrying the same backward over the end of the singletree or whiffletree and connecting it to a headed stud or pin on the rear thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a singletree and portion of traces embodying theiuvention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the singletree and improvement in connection therewith. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a modified form of construction.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the singletree, which, as shown in' Figs. 1 and 2, has an eye 2 secured to the endthereof and provided with a screw-threaded shank 3, inserted in the end of the said singletree and having a shouldered head 4:, from which extends a loop or eye 5. The rear portion of the said head 4 and the adjacent part of the singletree 1 is cut away, as at 6 and 7, to avoid formation of projecting surfaces, and wherover the trace end is passed and connected to a flanged or T-shaped headed stud or pin 8, having bearing in wear-plates 9 on opposite sides of the whiftletree. As shown in Fig. 3, the said loop or eye attachment is in the form of a socket to which the stud or pin is secured and provided with an eye 10, through Which may be passed the end of a retaining-strap 11, secured at its opposite end to an adjacent portion of the singletree. In all the forms set forth the loop or eye stands vertically or in such position as to provide for the ready passage of the trace therethrough. The construction at each end of the singletree is similar, and the object of the arrangement is'to take the strain directly off the ends of the traces and bring it to bear against the back of the sin gletree by a gradual bend in the trace, whereby the traces will not be readily broken or injured.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- In a trace-fastener, the combination, with a singletree, of a loop or eye integrally formed with a shouldered head having a screw-shank, said loop or eye being in duplicate and vertically and immovably disposed across each of the ends of the singletree, and a flanged or headed stud or pin projecting from the rear of the said singletree and adapted to be engaged by the trace after having been passed through the said loop or eye, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed mysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL E. SMITH. Witnesses:

W. A. BASS, H. H. MOAULEY. 

